カテゴリー: Middle East and North Africa
Sohail Ahmadi, who was being raised by a local Kabul taxi driver, will hopefully now travel to the US to live with his parents An infant boy handed in desperation to a US soldier across an airport wall in the chaos of the American evacuation of Afghani…
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Liquor destroyed after barrels seized and three arrested in capital as Taliban government increases raids over alcohol and drugsA team of Afghan intelligence agents poured about 3,000 litres of liquor into a canal in Kabul, the country’s spy agency has…
Coastal communities in Mexico, Bangladesh and Somalia are struggling to adapt to the climate crisis. Many people have already lost livelihoods and homes to rising waters Continue reading…
From a Jacobean traveller’s travails in Sindh to the tangled roots of Nigeria, our pick of new nonfiction books that shine a light on Asia, Africa and South America• Share your top recommendations for books on the developing world in the comments below…
MPs’ inquiry given further details of Britain’s mismanagement of Afghanistan exit with ‘people left to die at the hands of the Taliban’Further evidence alleging that the government seriously mishandled the withdrawal from Afghanistan has been handed to…
Cautious optimism as Tehran revises its position after pressure from Russia and ChinaEfforts to revive the Iran nuclear deal have been hauled back from the brink of collapse as Tehran revised its stance after pressure from Russia and China and clear wa…
Iran’s natural allies are said to have been surprised by how much it had gone back on its own compromisesThe US is hoping pressure from Russia, China and some Arab Gulf states may yet persuade Iran to moderate its negotiating stance in regards to the s…
A roundup of the struggle for human rights and freedoms, from Mexico to Manila Continue reading…
A roundup of the struggle for human rights and freedoms, from Pakistan to Poland Continue reading…
The photographs of Marilyn Stafford, who has died aged 97, set an example for female photographers across the world. Her pictures – many of which lay undiscovered for years – covered fashion on the streets of Paris to the Algerian war of independence, …
Exact date for talks aimed at reviving the 2015 nuclear deal to be announced next weekIran said on Thursday it would return to talks with world powers aimed at reviving a 2015 nuclear deal by the end of November, the first time it has set a date for th…
India, Egypt and Cuba among first states to develop and make their own vaccines as Covax falls behind Developing countries are increasingly turning to homegrown Covid vaccinations as the UN-backed Covax programme falls behind.While western countries ro…
Diplomats visit Kabul to raise issue of ‘safe passage’ for Britons leaving Afghanistan and rights of womenBritish officials have gone to Afghanistan for the first time since the country fell to the Taliban, meeting the group’s senior leaders in Kabul t…